my bright sword career

Chapter 25
There was silence in the side hall, looking at the pensive Gao Hongming, Ziying glanced at her lady worriedly.

Although she followed Qin Xiulian to the Gao family for just over a year, she knew very well that the young master of the Gao family was impatient. After all, Gao Hongming's reputation in Liantai County was known to everyone in the past. It would be a shame to be rejected like this. It's hard to hang on.

Sensing Ziying's worry, Qin Xiulian gave her a reassuring look.

After a while, Gao Hongming asked again: "Tell me about our family's business in Liantai."

Qin Xiulian looked at him in surprise. In the past, this young master of the Gao family hated these things the most, but today he took the initiative to ask. This change is really a bit big?
"Our family has sixteen shops in Liantai, including six rice shops, five medicine shops, two cloth shops and three medicine shops. Each shop has a shopkeeper, a cashier and three to six assistants."

"What about the profitability of these stores?"

"In previous years, these shops would have earned around [-] to [-] oceans a year, but since the Japanese invaded Shanxi, our business has declined drastically. Last year we only earned less than [-] oceans."

"That's it."

Gao Hongming stopped talking. At first glance, the profit of tens of thousands of oceans seems to be a lot, but this is not how it is calculated.

There are hundreds of servants, nurses, maids, and old mothers in the Gao family compound. The food, drink, and casualties of these people are a lot of expenses. Now Gao Hongming has also formed a militia group, and the expenses are even more It's like running water, even if Gao's family has a big business, it's a bit too much.

He thought for a while and suddenly said, "Xiulian, does our pharmacy sell western medicines? I mean medicines like sulfonamides, penicillin or morphine."

Qin Xiulian smiled wryly when she heard the words: "These things are very difficult to get, and they are hard-to-find things. Our pharmacy simply doesn't have the ability to get this kind of medicine that is in short supply.

Take sulfonamide as an example, the current price in the world is five oceans and three tablets, but even one ocean is hard to buy.

Not to mention life-saving things like penicillin, a small bottle of penicillin sold for two large yellow croakers on the black market, and ordinary people simply couldn't afford it. "

"So expensive?" Gao Hongming couldn't help exclaiming.

Although Gao Hongming knew that the price of penicillin was very high during World War II, he did not expect it to be so high.

The so-called yellow croaker is what people in the Republic of China called gold bars. There is a difference between large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker.

A small yellow croaker is about 30 yuan, and a large yellow croaker is 300 yuan.

Based on this price, a bottle of penicillin (penicillin), which is only a few dollars in later generations, costs 600 yuan, which is simply a money grab.

"Is it expensive?" Qin Xiulian said disapprovingly, "But anyone who can save lives will be bought no matter how expensive it is."

"Well, that's right."

Gao Hongming understood this, and among other things, just a few days before his crossing, a piece of news exploded the entire Internet.

The selling price of a shot of lymphoma anti-cancer specific drug is 120 million, which has attracted countless netizens to watch. You must know that such a price is obviously beyond the affordability of ordinary people.

But even so, it is still hard to find a needle. In comparison, the price of a bottle of penicillin and two small yellow croakers is really not high.

He thought for a while before saying: "If I can get a batch of sulfa, can you sell it?"

"Can you get sulfa?"

Qin Xiulian looked at Gao Hongming in surprise, "Hong Ming, are you joking?"

"Do you think I look like I'm joking?"

Gao Hongming didn't talk nonsense, he turned and went out the door.

A few minutes later, he came back with two boxes, one big and one small, and put them on the table.

"Can you open it and see for yourself?"

Still in a daze, Qin Xiulian tore open the packaging of the box.

Ziying also poked her head to look at the box, and blurted out: "Oh...the box is still written in foreign language."

Unpacking the box, I saw the glass bottles inside, and carefully read the instructions for a while.

Qin Xiulian is not the kind of woman who can't read big characters. She was no stranger to English after studying in a missionary school in the provincial capital.

"Sulfa powder...is it really sulfa powder? And this box...Oh my God...it's actually penicillin?"

Qin Xiulian covered her small mouth and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

And Ziying, the servant girl, hurriedly counted.

"One, two, three...eighteen, nineteen, twenty..."

"My God, there are 24 bottles of penicillin in all, and a whole five hundred packets of sulfa powder... How much is that?"

It's just that Ziying calculated for a long time but couldn't figure out how much the two boxes of medicine were worth.

In the end, it was Qin Xiulian who flicked her head lightly, "Should... you are always lazy to ask you to read more books on weekdays, and now you can't even figure out such a simple thing."

"Miss...you hit me again. Besides, I'm not an accountant, so how could I count these things?"

Qin Xiulian suddenly grabbed Gao Hongming's hand, her big eyes were extraordinarily bright, "Hong Ming...give these things to me, and I will definitely sell them at the most suitable price."

Gao Hongming laughed, and held her little hand behind his back, feeling a warm and delicate feeling from the palm of his hand to his heart, and then gently scratched her upturned nose, "I've already given it to you, It's up to you, of course. If you can handle it well, I can get you more sulfa powder and penicillin."

"real……"

At this time, Qin Xiulian had already entered the working mode, and her expression became serious, "How much can you get?"

"Um……"

Gao Hongming pondered for a while, and pointed to the two cardboard boxes on the table: "Now, I can only get 10 boxes of penicillin and 500 boxes of sulfa powder every month."

"Ten cases of penicillin, 10 cases of sulfa powder?"

Qin Xiulian was so excited that she felt a little dizzy. She firmly grasped Gao Hongming's arm, "If it's true, the entire Liantai County...no...the gates of the entire 26 counties of Yanmen Road will be open to us."

Looking at Qin Xiulian whose pretty face was flushed with excitement, Gao Hongming smiled, no wonder his predecessor avoided her.

Apart from the dislike of his father marrying a wife for himself without permission, the most fundamental reason is his dissatisfaction with this kind of strong woman, right?

After all, with the current social atmosphere, few men would like to accept a woman who is smarter and more capable than him, especially if this woman is his wife.

However, this kind of concern has no problem at all for Gao Hongming who came from later ages.

"Of course, I'm open to giving you sulfa powder and penicillin if you want, as much as you want."

Gao Hongming replied in a positive tone. In his mobile phone store, the price of each box of sulfa powder and penicillin is only [-] yuan.

(End of this chapter)